Improvement in medical compounds for the cure of asthma



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIoE.

CHARLES E. HURST, OF ROCHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDiCAL COMPOUNDS FOR THE CURE OF ASTHMA.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 131,167, datedSeptember 10, 1872, antedated September 5,

Specification describing a new and Improved Medical Compound, inventedby CHARLES B. HURST, of Rochester, in the county of Beaver and State ofPennsylvania.

My invention consists of one part digitalis, one part stramonium, andone part niter, mixed together in a powder, which compound I administer,for the treatment of asthma, by burnin g and causin gthe smoke tobeinhaledthro'ugh the mouth of the patient.

This compound, unlike others for the same purpose, preserves itsproperties fully for a long time, and may therefore be put up anyreasonable length of time necessary for commercial purposes in advanceof its use. It gives instant and immediate relief, and effects radicalcures in the worst cases, all of which I have demonstrated practically.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A compound formed of digitalis, stramonium, andniter, mixed in equal proportions, as and for the purpose set forth.

CHAS. B. HURST.

Witnesses:

O. R. Con, G. A. DARRAGH.

